A partial double rainbow straddles the Seekonk River this afternoon as a fast-moving storm clears out over Providence, RI.

The biggest reason I dislike what has happened to this site is I'd never have gotten to know Will but for Twitter, and now he's about to be my faculty colleague. Imagine an engine that lets you find colleagues! This is becoming much harder.

For those who think I didn't play the long game...this has been nearly a 5 year effort. Let's goooo, Will!

Guess who's about to become Rhode Island's #1 Rustacean and #2 document engineer (behind Andy van Dam, ofc). Catch me as an assistant prof at Brown CS in 2025!

Under the leadership of Chief Derek Silva, we instituted a new pilot program through which EMS units are assigned bicycle details in and around Downtown. Having trained medical personnel on-the-ground and able to respond quickly to everything from opioid overdoses to mental

I'm not kidding when I say this guy knows hospitality!

R1: Hates the field and your paper in particular, would rather be a wildlife photographer. Barely graduated.

R2: Spends the review doing demos that demonstrate how much smarter than the authors he is.

R3: Also barely graduated, but is the nice one. Weak accept.

So United Airlines's software matches hardware woes:
Initially: seat 20C.
Just before I get on, suddenly changes to 10E (no equip change).
On board, seat map shows 10E as *empty*.
Another person *also* has 10E.
20C ends up clear.
But for food, it has the name of a different (3rd) person.

I was yesterday years old when I first noticed that NIST (Nat'l Inst of Standards and Technology) uses the same 'Worm' typeface in their logotype as NASA did (now retired, 14 CFR 1221).

I don't often get to hang out with computer networking royalty, but when I do it's with masters like Puneet Sharma. Terrific day with the folks at HP Enterprise Labs + basking in Puneet's exceptional hospitality (Delhi-style food from someone who really knows it)!

One of the best airport announcements I've heard in a long time, at IAD airport today: 'To passengers coming from Richmond at gate A2, if you left behind your … *doesn't manage to completely suppress chuckle* … wheelchair, please return to the gate.'

Every Iranian I ever met (and I met quite a few, in universities in Europe and the U.S) was extremely friendly and nice. It would be INSANE of me to identify them with their crazy leaders, who they probably hate. I don't understand why anyone confuses governments with civilians.

Blocking, reporting, razing to the ground, salting the earth, and nuking the planet he lives on just to be sure.

But other than that, solid stuff, straight A.